free access to basic information & internet for all!

For those not familiar yet, this summer I started to work for the Basic Internet Foundation, based in Norway. Foundation is an organisation that aims at optimised content delivery on capacity-limited networks, and offers free access to low capacity Internet as a carrier of digital content to people in areas with low admission and / or no Internet coverage. Also, it assists organisations and companies to adapt and disseminate information for the affected recipients should be able to help themselves. Assistance may include educational systems, healthcare, agriculture information, innovation, research and development, banking or other services that contribute to increased welfare and value creation to benefit the population in the respective areas.

The Foundation was established in December 2014 as a collaboration between The University Graduate Centre (UNIK) and Kjeller Innovasjon AS. The impact of Basic Internet for the Digital Society is seen as a continuation of Internet deployment from Kjeller, starting with the Arpanet deployment in 1973, and with Opera Software in 1994.

Free access to all content being text and pictures, paid access to high-bandwidth services

All the Internet, without favouring or blocking particular products or websites (respecting net neutrality)

More about InfoInternet, you can read here. Basic Internet Access for all is the vision of the Foundation. If you’re interested and want to contribute to a world of free access to basic information on health care, education or development, join our quest to make this vision a reality!

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Dr Danica Radovanović is a Digital Equality Advisor at the Basic Internet Foundation, a social media researcher and international consultant. Danica is a former University of Oxford (Oxford Internet Institute) and JFDP/Fulbright Scholar in Information, Communication and the Social Sciences. Known as web activist and consultant in social web, digital media, e-literacy/learning, Danica pioneered...more>>